Survey on Budapest’s built up areas and building up structure

Abstract

Over the last quarter of a century the density of growing up has somewhat increased in the Hungarian capital city, also, the inner proportions of built-up and non built-up areas have changed. A slight increase can be seen in the share of residential zones, a substantial increase in the proportion of transportation areas, whereas a decease has occurred in the proportion of industrial, green and agricultural areas. Today approximately 70 per cent of Budapest is built up, almost half of which is residential area, one-third is area used for economic purposes or transportation, the rest is used for other purposes. The number of the homes in Budapest is almost 900 thousand. This stock has increased by 14 per cent in the last twenty years, and over a third of the new homes have been built in residential parks. The largest number of new homes has been built in districts 13 and 14, the least in districts 5 and 1.